San Angelo
Radio KPEP FM 106.5 Eldorado, Texas

San Angelo's Heritage Radio
Station, KPEP, is back on the air, now from Eldorado, Texas
- and we are playing all of those original Country Classics from
the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, and even some of your more recent
traditional Country Music Favorites. We feature Country Classics
from one of the largest Country Music libraries anywhere in the radio
business. Some of KPEP Radio's deejays originally played this music
on the radio, back when it first came out! We really do
enjoy playing all of your country music favorites  because
they are our favorite classic country hits, too.

About
Us

San Angelo's Radio Station,
KPEP, was certainly one of the most classic radio call signs in
West Texas music history. Starting in the early 1950's, KPEP in
San Angelo became the first full-time country music radio station
in America. By the Fall of 1954, KPEP Radio began adding some 'rock-a-billy'
records to their all Country Music format. Then, on a Wednesday night,
January 5th, 1955, Joe Treadway of KPEP Radio booked a little known
19 year old singer named ELVIS PRESLEY into a show at the San
Angelo Municipal Auditorium at City Hall.

Elvis, Scotty Moore and Bill
Black played that first show in San Angelo together with Billy
Walker, Jimmy and Johnny, along with Peach Seed Jones (Tillman Franks)
completing the lineup. What followed that debut in San Angelo, was a frenetic
barnstorm of some two dozen shows across Western Texas in 1955, from which
Elvis established himself as a live performer. It was over a year later
before the whole country would learn who Elvis was, when Heartbreak
Hotel" would hit #1 on both, the Country and Pop Music Charts.

In 1955 West Texas was
my hottest territory.  Elvis Presley

Those events in 1955 created a template, from which almost every Major
American Music Artist, both Country and Pop, owed much of their initial
success to being played FIRST in West Texas on KPEP Radio
including; Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Roy Orbison, Johnny
Cash, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Naylor, the Cavaliers, the Bobby Fuller Four,
Sonny James, Faron Young, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Merle Haggard,
Bill Anderson, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Ray Price, and many more.

"I saw Elvis in Odessa in 1955 for the
first time...Even in the early days Elvis almost always stole the show
from the headliners. Nobody wanted to follow Elvis Presley."

 Roy Orbison

If you miss the original country music that made listening to your radio
important for your Western Texas lifestyle, then tune in TODAY to the
all-new KPEP FM 106.5, and enjoy remembering your favorite Country
Classics on West Texas' Original Country Music Radio
Station.